Kamala Harris is spilling some serious tea about her relationship with Joe Biden, and it’s not pretty.
In her upcoming memoir “107 Days,” the former vice president reveals that Biden completely rattled her confidence just moments before she had to face Donald Trump on the debate stage.
The bombshell revelation paints a picture of a president more concerned with his own hurt feelings than supporting his successor in a crucial moment.
According to excerpts obtained by The Guardian, Harris was in her hotel room trying to prepare mentally for the high-stakes debate when Biden called.
What should have been a simple “good luck” call quickly went off the rails.
Biden told her that his brother had been talking to political “power brokers” in Philadelphia who claimed they wouldn’t support Harris because she’d been “saying bad things” about him.
While Biden said he didn’t necessarily believe it, he thought she should know “in case my team had been encouraging me to put daylight between the two of us.”
The call left Harris feeling “angry and disappointed” – exactly the emotional state you don’t want to be in before debating Trump.
Instead of focusing on her opponent, she was suddenly dealing with Biden’s insecurities and grievances.
“He shifted the focus to himself and his own debate experiences, distracting her in a critical moment,” Harris wrote, clearly still frustrated by the memory.
Her husband Doug Emhoff could see she was shaken and had to tell her to “let it go” before she walked on stage.
Imagine having to coach your spouse through that kind of last-minute drama before the biggest political moment of her life.
But the pre-debate call wasn’t Harris’s only grievance with Biden’s handling of the 2024 race.
Looking back, she’s clearly second-guessing the entire approach to Biden’s re-election decision.
While everyone kept saying “It’s Joe and Jill’s decision” during the campaign, Harris now sees that as a massive mistake.
“Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness. The stakes were simply too high.
This wasn’t a choice that should have been left to an individual’s ego or ambition,” she wrote.
Harris also drops another interesting tidbit: her first choice for running mate was actually Pete Buttigieg, not Tim Walz.
But she ultimately decided it was “too big of a risk” given everything else she was asking voters to accept.
“The campaign was already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man,” she explained with striking honesty about the political calculations involved.
The memoir, set for release soon, promises to give readers an unvarnished look at those chaotic 107 days between Biden stepping aside and Election Day.
